Linux-Setup Digest #615, Volume #19 Wed, 13 Sep 00 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself) ("Wolfgang Scholz")
Re: Can't Alter My Path, Can't Find My Path (Eric)
Re: OOPS! Mandrake boot question (aflinsch)
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) (I R A Darth Aggie)
execvp: input/output error? (Leonard Hardy)
RFH: Compiling tulip driver under Corel Linux 2nd Edition ("Jeffery A. Haremski")
Re: the df command excludes my floppy drive ("ne...")
Re: Dual Head notebook (tommy)
WU-FTP help needed ("A Larson")
Re: RAID problem - md version? ("Rune Hansen")
Re: fdisk - changing size of extended partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk - changing size of extended partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Wolfgang Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:58:31 +0200
When I use eg. /mnt as mount point, the problem still exists.
Problem is only solved when I use a non SCSI disk as mounting point.
But, I think that could be really true - run xcdroast only on IDE drives and
not on SCSI?
If yes, than xcdroast is ......
Wolfgang
"f.g.a.m.wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:01c01d51$5d199cd0$f52513ac@HT9810221904...
> I don't know if it works but I suggest that you try to use a mounting
point
> under "root" (something like ./mnt).
>
> Frans Wouters
>
> Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > "f.g.a.m.wouters" wrote:
> >
> > > Wolfgang Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > > I installed xcdroast v0.96ex (rpm package from redhat server) on my
> > > redhat
> > > > Linux 6.2.
> > > > After I start xcdroast and do the setup, I select the button "Copy
> > > Data-CD".
> > > > Now the next screen appears for 1 seconds and xcdroast exists itself
> > > without
> > > > any message.
> > > > Also everytime I start xcdroast, it says, that something has changed
> on
> > > the
> > > > SCSI bus, but there wasn't something changed.
> > > >
> > > > Knows anyone where I can find some add. information about my
problems
> > > with
> > > > xcdroast or knows anyone such problems?
> > > >
> > > > I use
> > > > TEAC CD-R56S CD-Writer
> > > > PLEXTOR PX-40TS CD-Drive
> > > > Adaptec AHA2940UW SCSI-Adapter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for help
> > > > Wolfgang
> > > >
> > > I had the same problem with xcdroast .
> > > The problem with me was that I had the wrong mounting point for
writing
> the
> > > image files.
> > > You can log in as root and change the setup (don't forget to save).
> > > If you have a SCSI harddisk you can cannot chose this as a mounting
> point,
> > > and there are several forbidden points.
> > > I hope this helps it did with me.
> > >
> > > Frans Wouters
> >
> > I have the same problem. Unfortunately, I don't know which mount points
> or
> > which partitions CAN be used. Whenever I select the partition in setup.
> > XCDRoast just exits without warning. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Alter My Path, Can't Find My Path
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:11:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ric wrote:
>
> "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Well, I don't know how this is managed in mandrake. In my RedHat,
> > under /etc/rc.d/init.d there is a standard script called functions
> > that contains the standard definition of PATH.
> >
> > If you add your path to the .bash_profile into your home directory
> > (~/.bash_profile) the path is not updated ? this sound strange to me.
> >
> > Davide
>
> OK, I'm on as root so home is 'root', right? In root I find a hidden file,
> .bash_profile. I add:
>
> export PATH=$PATH:/games
>
> I save it. I log off. I restart KDE as root (I'm the only user so root is
> my only choice). I open console and type:
>
> echo $PATH
>
> I look at the path and there is no change. I've added the same (and similar
> versions as found on the Linux Newbie instructions site) statement to
> .bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/anacrontab, /etc/bashrc, and
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions. NONE of these files has any influence on my
> path!!! Is the problem with being on as root or is there still a file I
> haven't butchered?
>
> Aaaarg,
>
> Ric
Can't be true, when you're logged in as root, just enter
bash at the prompt. The last/only script executed now is .bashrc
The path must be set correct now.
Are you sure you're using bash?
What does the $SHELL variable contain?
Eric
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OOPS! Mandrake boot question
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:18:16 -0500
Valverde wrote:
>
>
> I can only boot from floppy. If I try to boot from the hard disk,
> I get:
>
> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
> I think I answered a question incorrectly during the install, but is
> there a way to fix this without re-installing?
>
Check your lilo.conf on the hard drive, and compare it to the one on
the floppy. Pay close attention to the root=/dev/???? line and fix as
needed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: 13 Sep 2000 13:24:26 GMT
Reply-To: no-courtesy-copies-please
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:10:39 GMT,
Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ >>>>> "Toby" == Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
+ > ext2 doesn't really cope too well with forced power-downs. With ReiserFS
+ > or Ext3 things should be better. Consider installing one or the other if
+ > you are worried about lockups. As far as I remember you can just drop in
+ > ext3 onto an ext2 partition as it uses tables to keep tabs on what has
+ > changed rather than requiring a reformat. ReiserFS I do not know much
+ > about but it comes highly recommended from several sources.
+
+ Do you have a link to reiserfs or ext3? If I have to live with these
+ lockups, I would prefer a filesystem that is more robust to sudden
+ death of the kernel. ext3 doesn't sound so bad.
<url:http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/>
<url:ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/>
I know that reiser is a patch to the kernel source code, and I suspect
that ext3 is the same.
As an experiment on a fresh system with a 3.5gb and 16.5gb ext2
partitions, I powered it off, then timed the fsck on boot. IIRC, about
4 minutes on the large partition. I then installed reiserfs, formatted
the large partition, powered off. The large partition when thru it's
check in under 30 seconds
James
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From: Leonard Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: execvp: input/output error?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:32:09 +0000 (UTC)
Here's the specifics:
Mandrake 6.0, v2.2.9-19
486, 8 meg ram, 515 meg hard drive
I successfully installed Mandrake on this PC, it will ultimately be used
as a firewall and a DSL gateway for a home network. The initial boot
after the install is successful, although I do get a message that says
"hard drive optimisation for hda [ FAILED ]". I am able to log on, finish
setting up the network, ping other machines etc. Everything seems to be
working fine.
Subsequent re-boots, however, are a different story. Now the "hard drive
optimisation for hda" is OK, but the next step fails, badly:
Creating /mnt/disk
execvp: input/output error
and the boot process stops there. Rebooting again shows all sorts of disk
corruption and file system problems.
Is it possible that the hard drive optimisation, when it didn't fail,
somehow hosed my disk? It is possible to turn off this optimisation?
BTW, I re-installed from scratch a second time with the exact same
results.
Regards,
===========================================================================
Len Hardy Bartlett, IL USA
ljh1 at notes.ntrs.com --Work :-(
ljhardy at xnet.com --Play ;-)
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Reply-To: "Jeffery A. Haremski" <jharemski(at)aol(dot)com>
From: "Jeffery A. Haremski" <jharemski@aol(dot).com>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RFH: Compiling tulip driver under Corel Linux 2nd Edition
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:45:40 GMT
Gentlepeople,
I installed Corel Linux, and all is working well
except for my Ethernet card (Linksys Etherfast 10/100 - LNE100TX). The
supplied driver(www.linksys.com) must be compiled (tulip & pci-scan),
however I receive
the error shown below. Indeed, the header file in question is not installed
on the system. Does anyone have any ideas? Or know where one might
obtained the pre-compiled files?
tigger35:~/Desktop/Netdrivers# ls
Makefile kern_compat.h pci-scan.h starfire.c yellowfin.c
cb_shim.c natsemi.c pci-serial.c sundance.c
eepro100.c ne2k-pci.c pci-skeleton.c tulip.c
epic100.c netdrivers.tgz readme.txt via-rhine.c
hamachi.c pci-scan.c rtl8139.c winbond-840.c
tigger35:~/Desktop/Netdrivers# make
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/usr/src/linux/inc
lude -c pci-skeleton.c -o pci-skeleton.o
pci-skeleton.c:89: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
In file included from pci-skeleton.c:111:
kern_compat.h:38: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [pci-skeleton.o] Error 1
Thanks,
Jeffery A. Haremski
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the df command excludes my floppy drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:00:23 GMT
On Sep 13, 2000 at 11:52, astorwilliam eloquently wrote:
>When I type the df command at the $ prompt, it gives the values of all
>my partitions EXCEPT /mnt/floppy AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO. I have Linux
>Mandrake 7.1 now but when I had LM7, I used to have all my floppies
>display the values with the df command.
>The df values are very useful because you will know how much remaining
>memory space you have left.
>PLEASE can someone provide an answer ?
df will only report on MOUNTED drives/partitions.
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the result's the same."
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From: tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual Head notebook
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:01:09 GMT
Shadow wrote:
>
> I want to set up my notebook as a dual head machine (ie 2 screens running
> side by side to double my desktop size). It works using win 98 and I would
> like to know if I can set up something similar under Linux.
>
> I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a Rage Mobility-P 8Meg AGP graphics card.
>
> Under Windows the internal and external screens can be configured as 2
> independant screens (as in a dual head configuration). There appears to be
> separate I/O and memory addresses for internal and external ports but they
> share the same IRQ.
>
> XFree86 version 4.0.1 lists support for the Rage Mobility-P but I can't seem
> to find info on setting up a dual head system.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> David
Try http://213.237.17.91 under web links you will find a link laptop try
this.
Regards http://213.237.17.91
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From: "A Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WU-FTP help needed
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:42:53 -0500
I have installed wu-ftp on my linux box. I have run rpm -qa | grep ftp and
verified it is installed. What I don't know is how to start it! It is
installed, but not running. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Arthur
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From: "Rune Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID problem - md version?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:36:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel Foster"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here we go again...
>
>> > /proc/mdstat is size 0, so no clues there, and nothing's changed
>> > since bootup in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> Just because /proc/mdstat is size zero doesn't mean that it is empty.
>> Mine is size zero but contains Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
>> read_ahead 128 sectors md0 : active linear sda4 sdb4 13293784 blocks 4k
>> rounding md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive
>
> I see, thanks. The contents of /proc/mdstat are: (after running mkraid
> --really-force /dev/md0) Personalities : [1 linear] read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive
>
>
>> Also do # cat /var/log/messages for any clues.
>
> Nothing's changed since bootup there, so no help.
>
>> >Since the bootup message mentioned
>> > something about being nonpersistent I changed the
>> > persistent-superblock value in my /etc/raidtab from 1 to 0, but all
>> > that does is stop the 'disk n: ...' lines from appearing when mkraid
>> > is run.
>>
>> I believe you want persistent-superblock (=1) so that the kernel will
>> autodetect RAID arrays.
>
> That's what I thought
>
>> > I also changed the type of the three partitions to 0xfd from 0x83 to
>> > see if that helped, but still no change.
>>
>> You definitely want 0xfd for the partition type.
>
> Good.
>
>> Not sure what the problem is, but in the "Software-RAID-HOWTO" they
>> have an extra line in their example,
>> ...
>> nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 32 persistent-superblock 1
>> ....
>>
>> It then says
>> " You're probably wondering why we specify a chunk-size here when
>> linear mode just appends the disks into one large array with no
>> parallelism. Well, you're completely right, it's odd. Just put in some
>> chunk size and don't worry about this any more."
>>
>> So try that.
>
> I set the chunk-size to 32 and mkraid still drops me back out with the
> same error and the same lack of messages in /proc/mdstat and
> /var/log/messages. Any other ideas?
>
> --
This is probably not what you're looking for but it is a solution (of a
sort).
I ran in to the same problem trying to upgrade the defaul 2.2.14 kernel in
RedHat 6.2.
/etc/raidtab and the md devices were created during instalation.
Patching the 2.2.17 kernel source with raid0145 caused a compile failure,
so I gave that up. A RPM upgrade to 2.2.16 works since the rpm is patched
by RedHat (don't know about the srpm).
Here is what I did:
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/block/loop.o
Update kernel and headers with the latest rpms
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.0smp.img 2.2.16-3.smp
update lilo to reflect the new kernel and .img
This will of course be of little help if you're not using an rpm system or if
you realy need to compile the kernel...
anyway
regards
Rune Hansen, Viventus AS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'We are but packets in the internet of life'
-Mike Userfriendly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fdisk - changing size of extended partition
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:39:16 GMT
Many thanks for your prompt reply.Looks like I need to do some reading.
Am I correct in interpreting you to mean that:
a)I can safely do this on the dos extended partition, without affecting
non-Linux access to this partition?
b)I cannot increase the size of my existing root partition this way?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have been wondering if I could safely use fdisk to reduce
the size of
> > the DOS extended partition and to increase the size of the root
> > partition. Since I have no means of backing up entire partitions, I
am
> > hoping that I can simply change the ending cylinder of the extended
DOS
> > partition and the beginning cylinder of the root partition.
>
> I don't know about fdisk, but this is exactly what fips is designed to
do.
> The idea is to defragment your partition to move everything to the
start,
> then slice a piece off the end. Then use fdisk or cfdisk to make the
empty
> space into a partition.
>
> Read the documentation, back up, defragment, then go for it. I've
done it
> several times with no trouble.
>
> A.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fdisk - changing size of extended partition
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:49:41 GMT
Thanks for your replies to both this and my other posting re:swap
I do have a purchased version of Partition-it, but it is a Windows
version and buggy as well, so that's why I was hoping to resize without
it.
Do you know if there are free versions of Linux partitioning utilities?
Failing this, it looks like, from the other reply in this thread, I can
effectively shrink the DOS Extended partition, and create at least a new
linux native partition on this space. I would prefer to have a bigger
root partition, a but some space is better than no space!
Thanks again
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fdisk (the DOS-one as well as the Linux-one) do not have the ability
to
> change sizes on partitions. If you are going to use them, you will
have to
> delete the partition and create a bigger one.
>
> As an alternative, you could use partitionmagic or some other
> resize-enabled partition program.
>
> Rasmus B. Hansen
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I need to take space away from my DOS partition to give Linux
room to
> > grow. I have deleted a logical DOS partition to free up space.
> > I have been wondering if I could safely use fdisk to reduce the
size of
> > the DOS extended partition and to increase the size of the root
> > partition. Since I have no means of backing up entire partitions, I
am
> > hoping that I can simply change the ending cylinder of the extended
DOS
> > partition and the beginning cylinder of the root partition.
> > The table looks like this now:
> > /dev/hda1 1 65 6 FAT16
> > /dev/hda2 321 543 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda3 544 553 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda4 66 320 5 Extended
> > /dev/hda5 66 129 6 FAT16
> > /dev/hda6 130 193 6 FAT16
> > /dev/hda7 194 257 6 FAT16
> >
> > Since I created a space between 258 amd 320, I thought I might
be able
> > to change the ending cylinder of /dev/hda4 (extended DOS) to 257,
and
> > the beginning cylinder of /dev/hda2 (Linux) to 258.
> >
> >
> > It sounds too easy, so I thought I had better check in for some
more
> > knowledgeable opinions before I make a mess!
> > Thanks
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email replies are fine, my newsgroup access
is a
> > little slow
> >
> >
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> >
>
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